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Panasonic today unveiled its pricing for the new BD50 Blu-ray player. Priced at a hefty $700, the player sports Final Standard Profile 2.0, which includes multiple internet-based extras sourced from Blu-ray discs. The Panasonic BD50 also plays AVCHD (H.264) video and display JPEG images stored on an SD card. [Electronista]
Samsung Electronics has launched the HT-BD2F BD-P1500 4G Blu-Ray player along with 2G Blu-ray home theater ‘HT-BD2F’ in the Korean market. Like its third generation predecessor (P1400) the P1500 comes with an Ethernet port for firmware upgrades. The 2G HT-BD2F home theater sports a 7.1 channel speaker system. The BD-P1500 4G Blu-Ray player will be released in other markets soon, however release dates and pricing information for both are still unknown for now. [AVING]
Japan is now offering a good quality 6x Blu-Ray burner (SATA) for only 240€. If you want an external USB burner it wont be that much more so expect to pay about f 280€. [Akihabara]
Sony has announced the release of the new BDZ series Blu-ray recorders called the A70 and high-end T90. Both depend on AVC (H.264) encoding coming with either the 320GB or 500GB hard drives. You convert videos into portable formats. Other features include both analog and digital TV tuners, Sony’s Room Link, HDMI output, S-Video, and RCA. You can find both of these in Japan April 30th starting from $1,664 upwards. No word on if either of these will hit the States unfortunately. [Electronista]
Okoro will be dropping a media PC known as the OMS-ZX100. It features a 32GB SSD, a 1TB HDD for media storage, a 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor, 3GB of DDR2 RAM, NVIDIA’s 256MB GeForce 8600 GT graphics card, blu-ray / HD DVD playback and a color of your choice. Just be prepared to pay about $6,000 on up for this monster, especially if you want to add on a built-in CableCARD tuner and wi-fi adapter. [OkoroMedia]
Mitsubishi Electric has dropped two New Blu-Ray recorders called the DVR-BZ200 with 500GB of internal HDD and the DVR-BZ100 with 250GB of internal HDD. They both support AVC codec and AVCREC so you can record AVC to DVD. Along with a digital and analog TV tuners as well as HDMI and Tivo support, and lastly the touch-screen color LCD remote control. No word on when and how much either is going for. We’ll keep you posted. [Akihabara] More
JVC Japan has introduced BD-R discs for video recording. Each single layer disc is coated with U-HD hard coat technology which prevent scratches. The disc has a capacity of 25GB with a recording rate of 1 – 2X. The JVC BV-R130L5 are available in Japan for approx. $54. [NewLaunches]
Looks like both Philips and Lite-On have collaborated on a new Blu-ray player called DX-4O1S. It reads at 4x, and will be the first by Philips and Lite-On Digital Solutions. The player will be out next quarter. [DailyTech]
Goldmund is famous for overpriced electronics, they unveiled the Eidos 20 BD Blu-ray player. It looks like the Eidos 20 BD includes an AC-Curator power supply circuit, and a Magnetic Damper for lowering read errors. All I can say is you better have $16,000-$17,000 or a sugar daddy. [CNetCrave]
Sigmatek has joined the Blu-ray bandwagon with their new Blu-ray player called the SBR-1000. It’s going for about €250 ($364) and will be the cheapest in Europe. The SBR-1000 supports Profile 1.1 / bonus view features along with 1080p/24, Dolby Digital Plus, Dolby TrueHD and HDMI 1.3 support. Look for this cheap European Blu-ray player this April.
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